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The town common, somewhere in suburban Massachusetts. The gods, usually completely absent, are smiling on a massive gathering of teenagers and parents for Prom 2026 in the form of a massive blue evening sky. All too brief, but there are wonderful moments in the world.

Slava Ukraini. Forever. (Worth noting that this is in The Bulwark, by an Iraq commander/vet.) www.thebulwark.com/p/ukraine-se...

If racism is no longer a problem, then why are all the states rushing to redistrict after the Supreme Court ruling all in The South? And all the people pushing to redistrict all White? 🤔🤔🤔

Hells yes. ✊ The GOP contamination, and perversion, of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches literally needs to be purged. Put them all in prison.

Orange cardamom upside-down cake, with steam fresh from oven

"We were just trying to get a more *skilled* workforce." "We were trying to get a *safer* neighborhood." "We were making reasonable decisions about loan repayment." Now that one pillar of the Reconstruction Amendments has been bulldozed, racist rationales are now fair game for other pillars.

Peach Filled Molar

For Samuel Bull Connor Alito. It takes a novelist to wipe the floor with a (smiling, affable) racist. m.youtube.com/watch?v=dTEr...

Okay, who did this? 🤣🤣

LOOK UPON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY, AND DESPAIR

Must be another document drop incoming for him to attempt this weak, weak sauce crap.

Soros has a GOLDEN chance to do the funniest possible thing right now.

He'll always have sexionals

Goddamit this movie doesn't play fair. It's also the best, most beautiful, most poetic fucking thing I've seen in a very, very long time.

This is a prime example of the very worst kind of symbiotic "insider account" journalism -- in which you can tell who the "sources" are, because they make themselves look good. It is therefore of extremely suspect accuracy. But.... 1/

Best Star Trek crew. Wrong answers only.

The truth of it.

Hi, nerds. Is this a thing? (I'm sorry.) I'd take spring-based screaming over what we have now, regardless. #MST3K @billcorbett.bsky.social

Very depressed today. We've concluded that we have to put our dog Sadie down. She bit a guy looking at our furnace (not at all seriously, thank God), and she's been aggressive at times in the past, usually toward men. She's been the most loving dog with all of us.

My new favorite writer: open.substack.com/pub/samkriss...

Toilet Seat Rotgoblin Has Opinions

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

When there isn't enough butter in the house to make our traditional Dutch baby for the occasional breakfast, this is a national emergency.

Most people deserve someone giving them the great gift of "don't take no shit today". The rose is just

About as dramatic a B&W selfie as I can possibly manage, but I end up looking like a goofball. Which tracks.

WTF

Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this. You're welcome

Still thinking about the 2020 Emmy award winners for most uneven eye contact during a sex scene

Charlie Kirk spent his life making people like me unsafe. His followers sent me death threats for years and threatened my employer if they didn’t terminate me. His work was NEVER about free speech. It was about hate and emboldening violent people. The dishonesty of the past 24hrs is disgusting.

It's honestly the reason my constant refrain is "I'm pretty good,*under the circumstances*."

1983

Stanley Kubrick's American Pie

Just blocks from where I was teaching today, a guy with a long gun goes walking around the dorms of UMass. I don't even think it'll make national news. It's also 7PM local time and he's still at large. This fucking country, I don't know

When that idiot rapist won the first time, I had this on pretty much an endless loop in my car. When he won again, I switched to the 2020 remix of "Fight the Power". Nevertheless, this classic of unadulterated anger and rage remains: youtu.be/vfowA1lg2G8?...

When George III deployed the military to police his own subjects in Boston in 1775, colonists turned out in the streets and began pelting them with snowballs, ice, and oyster shells. It’s hard to believe there was a time when you couldn’t find a good sandwich in Boston.

I figure you have to go with the Thin White Duke himself. youtu.be/kMYg_Ra4cr8?...

Stephen Miller Tears Up As Son Says First 14 Words

A political party of Travis Bickles, all the way down.